Psychology · Psychometrics & Measurement
A topic within Psychometrics & Measurement, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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L. L. Thurstone
Recasts mental abilities as vectors in a multi-dimensional space and develops the multiple-factor-analysis methods to locate them, an alternative to Spearman's single general factor that argued for several independent primary mental abilities instead.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Leandre R. Fabrigar, Duane T. Wegener, Robert C. MacCallum & Erin J. Strahan
Surveys how exploratory factor analysis was actually being used in published psychology and finds routine errors - wrong extraction methods, too few factors, orthogonal rotation of correlated constructs - that change what the analysis appears to show.